London will be the host for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games which is scheduled to start from 27th of July to 12th of August, 2012. This time, some stadiums are modified from their pre-structures or yet to be done, some are built only for the 2012 Olympics. The venues can be broadly divided into 3 zones – the River zone, the Central Zone and the Olympic Zone.

Wembley Arena Venue: London had been under immense pressure to decide where to house some Olympic events.Building a temporary venue near the Olympic Park would be extremely expensive. Wembley Arena has a long history of hosting badminton events in the past and so, The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) have rubber-stamped on the matter that Wembley Arena in north London will be the venue for rhythmic gymnastics and badminton in 2012. Some have objected in this as the participants have to suffer a 90-minutes journey from the athlete’s village in Stratford. But the higher authorities have succumbed since the organizers are offering hotel rooms within walking distance of Wembley to avoid travelling to east London. The Badminton World Championships will be held here in August 2011, acting as a test event for the 2012 Games.

Transport Links: The stadium will have links to Wembley Park Station (London Underground) via Olympic Way and also Wembley Central Station via the White Horse Bridge. Wembley can be reached by public transport such as tube lines and by bus. Around six miles from the city centre and situated beside theWembley Stadium, it will accommodate easily 6,000 spectators.

Cost: Shifting the early rounds to an existing venue such as Wembley Arena could save about £90 million. So the venue was also economically viable. To overcome financial problems over the new stadium, the parties involved signed on a pact that provision for a building cost of around £352 million, with total project costs of £757 million, would be provided. Under such an arrangement, the client is protected from exposure to budget over-runs or delays in construction. A National Lottery fund investment of £120 million and financial backing of £426 million for the project was secured through West Deutsche Landesbank of Germany. Ken Livingston and Brent Council secured £21 million in funding for the project and a further £17.2 million from WNSL for improving the infrastructure of the area around the stadium.

After the Olympics: The Arena will revert to being an excellent concert venue as it is used for this purpose only before the Games.

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